Discussion Thread – The 13th Annual Greatest Games Event

[S.Peelman]

Bofferbrauer2 said:

S.Peelman said:

Two new ones, and new hints for the earlier two.

40 - In a live-action cutscene, your instructor in one level, as you fly one of the enemy's craft, casually refers to your enemies as "Bucketheads".
Hint 2: You'll also have to "follow his lead and do what [he] say".
Hint 3: It is strange though, training rookie pilots by letting them fly enemy fighters at high speeds through extremely narrow chasms. Doesn't seem safe. But this is important, because (in the story anyway), you'll need the knowledge for the capture of the enemy's experimental cloaked fighters that have been wreaking havoc.

38 - The single-player mode of this game, the base game anyway, features campaigns for five of the six civilisations, though a mini-level of the sixth can be played as an easter-egg in one of the levels of one of the other campaigns after you find it by revealing the map through a cheat-code.
Hint 2: There are still six campaigns anyway, but the first, which is a tutorial, and the last campaign both feature the same hairy civilisation.

37 - Green, Red, Yellow, Blue and Orange, are the colours to focus on, from left to right. At least it didn't yet have the purple bar as well. Guessed by Veknoid_Outcast - Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock

36 - While still great, the expansion for this game tainted the balance somewhat, because the new civilisation could use certain powers multiple times while the original three can only use every power once.

40... Wing Commander 3?

38? WarCraft III, maybe?

Decent guesses, but both not quite.

They do both have a connection in some way to my games, not because they are the same series or something, but your guess for #40 features an actor from the franchise of my #40, and #38 is the same genre.